Rise and Shine and Give God Your Glory! Glory!

Both Saturday and Sunday mornings, I had an open schedule to sleep as late as I wanted to.

In the past, I've slept in on those days, as late as noon or 1pm, if I was out late the night before.

On both days, without any prompting from Maggie or my cell-phone or my alarms, I woke up at 7:30am.



Wierd, huh?

I felt like I was somehow cheating myself out of much-deserved rest time. Some of my favorite mornings were where I got to sleep in, finish dreams out and wake up naturally, on my own. Late in the morning.

Not this weekend, though.

On Sunday, in sheer defiance and stubbornness, I immediately crammed my head back onto my pillow and managed to squeeze another 45 minutes of sleep before waking up definatively.

It was nice being up at a decent hour on Sunday. I checked email, cleaned a bunch of music off of my computer, burned some backup CDs, and gathered up laundry to be washed that day. All that and I STILL had enough time to watch an episode or two of "LOST".

I think that a BIG part of it is that I'm not going to work at a place I hate anymore. I actually look forward to the commute and the walk to work, each day. I enjoy being on this assignment. I like being here. And there's no sense of dreading the start of the day, be it weekends or workdays. And with that new appreciation for my temp assignment, I'm no longer staying up absurdly late at night, trying to squeeze some recreation time out of the wee hours of the morning, dreading the thought of going to work, in a few short hours.

I don't know if this pattern is going to continue.
But I am certainly enjoying it, now, while it lasts.

Awake, Alive and Motivated,
Mr. B